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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:skin lightening agent
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Accession:CHEBI:85046 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any cosmetic used to lighten the colour of skin by reducing the concentration of melanin.
Synonyms:related_synonym: melanogenesis inhibitor;   melanogenesis inhibitors;   skin bleaching agent;   skin bleaching agents;   skin depigmenting agent;   skin depigmenting agents;   skin lightening agents;   skin whitening agent;   skin whitening agents
 xref: PMID:21265866;   PMID:22132817;   PMID:22314516;   PMID:23891889;   PMID:23974587;   PMID:25535470;   PMID:25574195;   PMID:25643794;   Wikipedia:Skin_whitening



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      CHEBI ontology 19921
        role 19893
          application 19734
            cosmetic 2066
              skin lightening agent 2058
                L-ascorbic acid + 784
                ellagic acid + 165
                glutathione + 385
                hydroquinone + 1003
                kojic acid 423
                nomilin 1
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